The Justice Department announced in May it was canceling proposed consent decrees with Louisville and Minneapolis that sought ...

Kamala Harris praised ‘defund the police’ movement in June 2020 radio interview (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris voiced support for “defund the police” in a radio interview in June 2020 amidst ...

A federal judge has dismissed Louisville’s proposed police reform agreement with the Department of Justice, ending a yearslong effort to impose federal oversight following the 2020 killing of Breonna ...

In the wake of 2020, states and localities created a number of new civilian police accountability boards to meet widespread demand for transparency. Civilian boards have limited power, and despite ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Louisville, Kentucky, struck an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department on Thursday to reform its police department after an investigation prompted by the 2020 ...

Experts say independence, disciplinary powers and resources are key. While police oversight boards have been around for decades, a string of high-profile killings in recent years, including George ...

Police reform came to the forefront in 2020 when then-Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo mandated that law enforcement agencies statewide discuss police practices with people in their communities and create ways to ...

And no civilian death put a city's police department under more intense scrutiny in that time than the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Since then, the Minneapolis Police Department has ...

The Portland Police Bureau is fending off attacks on several fronts from antifa’s forces laying siege on government property on a nearly nightly basis, to the public claiming that the police ...